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Re: iPhone ROM Development $1000

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Originally Posted by newone757 View Post
But that is way different from this. the reason hackers were able to run mac os on a pc is because apple switched its processor types to the same architecture windows uses. Since iphone and our phones are on completely different processors its not gonna happen. thats the biggest hurdle besides legal stuff
Wrong. They are running on the same type of architecture, ARM. If the source for the OS was available, a port could be made. The reason you can run OS X on a PC is because of all the open source OS X is built on top of made it easy for hackers to enable booting, not to mention the fact that x86 Macs use EFI, which isn't some proprietary Apple thing

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